Subj : Re: Windows & Unix?
To   : Nightfox
From : Ryan Fantus
Date : Fri Feb 24 2023 18:24:49

 Ni> I had an idea yesterday though..  I thought about setting up a VM
 Ni> running OS/2 or maybe ArcaOS and running my old DOS-based RemoteAccess
 Ni> BBS as a game server in it with some DOS door games, and use
 Ni> Synchronet's telnet door to let people connect to it.  That would
 Ni> probably take up fewer resources than a modern Windows VM.  There's a
 Ni> serial driver for OS/2 that provides a virtual COM port and allows
 Ni> incoming telnet connnections to connect to it.

Sorry for separate post, hit /s instead of /q

Yeah, I actually did this ... sort of. I had a win7 32 bit VM running in a completely firewalled environment. I actually used Synchronet which worked well as a door server, and passing users off to the doors was completely transparent to users - they launched a door on my linux BBS and were immediately in the game in Synchronet with very little lag. It was pretty cool. But the overhead of constantly putzing with that Win7 VM was just a pain, there was always something going wrong with it, so I scrapped it.

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